Top stories published by Mozilla Tech in 2016

Over the past year, our top priority for Firefox was the Electrolysis project to deliver a multi-process browsing experience to users. Running Firefox in multiple processes greatly improves security and performance. This is the largest change we’ve ever made to Firefox, and we’ll…

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Dave Herman in Mozilla Tech

Nov 16, 2016

Rust and the Future of Systems Programming

There’s been a lot of excitement and news recently about Project Quantum and…

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Dave Herman in Mozilla Tech

Nov 18, 2016

Rust for Web Developers

Web development is the topic of the third video in our series about the Rust programming language. As a safe systems…

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Ryan Pollock in Mozilla Tech

Sep 8, 2016

Taking It Back: Why This Xoogler is Joining Mozilla

It’s been a long time since I wrote openly about technology, with my own voice. Why? Because I spent nine years ghostwriting for Google, after joining the company with the acquisition of JotSpot back in 2006. Good chance you’ve read some of…

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Dave Herman in Mozilla Tech

Nov 17, 2016

Unlocking the Power of Parallelism with Rust

Parallelism is the topic of the second video in our series about the Rust…

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Flaki in Mozilla Tech

Jul 8, 2016

Diving Into Rust for the First Time

Rust is a new programming language which focuses on performance, parallelization, and memory…

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Kearwood "Kip" Gilbert in Mozilla Tech

Sep 2, 2016

Experimental HTC Vive Support in Firefox Nightly

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Bryan Clark in Mozilla Tech

Sep 14, 2016

Introducing debugger.html

Sometimes, when working on a project you sense you are working with one foot in the present and one foot in the future. Enormous potential lies ahead and exciting possibilities are getting closer everyday. I have this feeling as I am working on debugger.html, one of the latest…

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April King in Mozilla Tech

Aug 25, 2016

Promoting Security Best Practices with Observatory

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Rebecca Weiss in Mozilla Tech

Dec 14, 2016

How We Built It: The First Ever Firefox Hardware Report

By Alessio Placitelli, Ali Almossawi, and Rebecca Weiss

We have just released the Firefox Hardware Report, a report of the hardware used by the Firefox release user base. You can read the announcement here…

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